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Upcoming Events
Call for nominations to the 'Exceptional Early Career Contribution to the Field of Ecohealth' award!
Call closes July 19, 2010. Download the formal announcement [PDF].
Registration for the EcoHealth 2010 London Conference is now open!
Browse the EcoHealth 2010 Conference Website (left).
The third Biennial EcoHealth Conference will be held from the 18-20th of August, 2010, hosted by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. The over- arching theme for the Conference is Global Ecohealth Challenges; Multiple Perspectives. Daily themes include Urban EcoHealth, Biodiversity & EcoHealth
and Sustainability & EcoHealth. Registration for the Conference opens February 17. Closing Day for Submission of Abstracts is March 31st 2010. Browse the links for the
EcoHealth 2010 Conference (left).
For up-to-date general information, event schedule, speaker biographies, and a list of oral presentations, download the Conference Program [PDF].
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Past Events
2010 Asia-Pacific Global Health Summer Institute
An inaugural Asia-Pacific Global Health Summer Institute (SI) will be held June 20 to July 2, 2010, in Honolulu, HI, to provide instruction and an
exciting new forum focused on critical global health issues of the Asia-Pacific Region. With the theme of New Perspectives in Global Health: Integrating Ecological,
Social, and Biological Sciences, the SI aims to combine expertise and resources for fostering integrative systems-level approaches to global health research and practice.
Co-sponsored by the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) Office of Public Health Studies, and the University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health, the SI will
especially focus on four pressing global health challenges of the Asia-Pacific Region: indigenous health disparities, linkages between healthy ecosystems and public health,
the socio-ecology of emerging infectious diseases, and public health leadership. Four one-week graduate-level courses will be team-taught at the UHM campus, by outstanding
faculty from UHM, UC Berkeley, Mae Fah Luong University, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The UHM campus, on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu, provides an
ideal setting for instruction as Hawaii represents a microcosm of the Asia-Pacific Region, with its mix of Polynesian, Asian, and Western cultures, along with its fragile
ecosystems that are increasingly threatened by global changes. More information is available at the SI website here.
International EcoHealth Forum 2008
In December 2008, in Mérida, México, the
National Institute of Public Health (INSP)
of México will host the
International EcoHealth Forum 2008 in
collaboration with the
International
Development Research Centre (IDRC, Canada),
the
International Association for Ecology
and Health (IAEH), the
Oswaldo Cruz
Foundation, Brazil (FIOCRUZ), the
Institute of Ecological Research, Brazil
(IPE), and the
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechny of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (FMVZ-USP). The Forum will promote research,
theory and practice internationally to
consolidate the growing community of
researchers, policy-makers, and civil
society representatives. It will bring a
better understanding of the holistic links
between ecosystems and human health and the
identification of pathways for more
sustainable action and interventions. The
role of transdisciplinary approaches towards
discovery and sustainable solutions will be
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International Conference on Health and Biodiversity
The Second International Conference on Health
and Biodiversity, took place from the 25th to 28th of February 2008 in
Galway, Ireland. The conference advanced dialogue
and collaboration across sectors on issues linking biodiversity with human health and well-being, and highlighted practical cross-sectoral
and holistic approaches to addressing the
issues.
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 Asia Pacific EcoHealth Conference
The Asia Pacific EcoHealth conference People & Places in a Changing World was held in Melbourne, Australia in November, 2007. The themes of the 3-day conference were: cultural change, measuring the links between environments and health, ecological literacies in health practice, systemic thinking, indigenous and local perspectives, environments and health.
Participants came from all over the world, a total of around 120 delegates. Professionals from the social and biological sciences including sectors such as health promotion, environmental health, sociology, urban planning, economics, conservation and environmental management came together to seek, share, and combine knowledge. In the words of two participants: There were 'inspirational presentations and discussions' and 'it was great to see so many people in diverse fields / backgrounds all working together to achieve a common goal'.
For more information about the conference go to the Asia-Pacific Ecohealth '07 Conference Website.
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EcoHealth One
The International Association for Ecology and Health will hold a bi-annual, international conference. The first conference, EcoHealth One, was hosted at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in October, 2006. The meeting was a success with nearly 400 participants from around the globe. Click the photo below to reach the conference site for additional information. 
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